I love to cook!So to keep up with the "wish list" of mine( the one I listed earlier was merely a mini version of it- have a longer one!) I decided to try at least a new recipe every week.And surprisingly this one "wish" of mine  was do-able, as in, I have yet to procrastinate on. In fact, I've been exceeding my own expectations-I've been trying out more than just 1 recipe every week,for the past 4(pat myself on the back :)). I've read somewhere once that the kitchen is actually like an experimental lab, there's no rule in cooking.So each dish you'd cook  is like a new found "thing".I've kept that in mind since then. Right now I'll  just imagine which ingredient would taste great with the other,then just cook them up together.Basically I think a good cook would be someone who'd know and memorize the taste, smell, texture etc. of any ingredient  then come up with something, that tastes oh so good.Hopefully I'd be someone as skilled as that.In the meantime, I'll continue being my kitchen's own little chef. With this I've also started eating out less, hence-MONEY SAVED!(I'm coming Seoul, Milan, Macau, Beijing). Plus I've totally minimize the use of salt and sugar- go go health!Here are some of the dishes I made.I strongly recommend on playing some opera(Cecilia Bartoli-my favourite) or some classical + foreign language songs(right now I'm into Italian), whilst cooking. It never fails to make me feel like I'm in some high class European kitchen and it just gets me in the right mood.

Baracuda grilled with sweet soy sauce+ kimchi + fried cabbage

My own version of Mapo Tofu + sesame chilli fried veggies + rice

Sautéed egg plant stuffed with mashed potato and tofu with my favourite sweet and spicy sesame sauce!  

Kimchi mashed potato

My 1st attempt on dumplings- fried!

Again, dumplings!This time; steamed :)

My very own version of Kimchi jigae(I still need to find out what  it actually means, till then, I'll stick to just that)

Resolution-no, wish list-yes !

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here.Just started new term in college so you could say I had my hands were full for the past few weeks. I've come to realize 2nd year of medicine is no joke or have I realized it so many times before that I pretend it's a new found feeling every time I "re-think" of it-denial at its  best!But right now I'm not going to go all whiny saying I regret for choosing a doctor's life over something I'd like to think more relaxing, something that wouldn't get me so worked up.Because all I know it's too late for me to back down now-and I can proudly say now, more than ever, that I have overcome those feeling of regrets, those months long of mental-battle I had once with myself.I don't know how, but I just started thinking if I was already in this, I might as well make the best of it.Things like these always happen to me, my positivity level shines the best during these times.So yeah, that was the once confused me.I just hope the future me can handle these things well,keep grounded,level-headed and positive at all times.
Well ,just recently I made myself a set of resolutions.It might seem a bit untraditional of me since it's almost the 2nd half of the year-but I believe you can make resolutions everyday if have or want to! In my case I had to.The last time I made new year's resolution was when I was 14?Yup 14! It consisted of things like; lose weight,study harder etc.I can't seem to remember much of them, but they seemed like quite a long and winding list of things to do for such a young me.I jot them down on a bright red paper, stuck some nice moon shaped glitter stuff you'd get from stationary shops, so that all 'had tos' that year looked dreamy and pretty!By the end of that year it actually was just a dream-non of them went my way. In fact I barely actually take the time to take a look for more than 2 minutes of that red paper hanging over my desk.I kind of made up my mind to never make new year's resolutions.It kind of worked!At every end of the year after that I didn't feel like some total failure at the same time I didn't feel as if I've achieved something either.All this time I felt that I've lived too cautiously.Like I said, before I had the habit of making lists of almost everything plus I was a bit uptight for someone my age. So back then I thought why not let my hair down a little.Live spontaneously-that was what I thought,would do me some favour.But recently I've been feeling as if I've set myself too loose.So right now I'm trying to tune the "miss uptight" and the "miss spontaneous" in me and find a perfect balance between them 2 :) So wish me luck- all the best to you Sarah!And here's some of the things I've listed down-my wish list( sounds less daunting than a resolution!):
1. Save up -for TRAVELLING(Italy,Macau, South Korea, China!)
2. Prioritise fitness-loose the EXCESS weight( you can't loose too much) -pilates rocks!Cardios too.
3. Practice + introduce more good daily habits
4. Try to lessen my procrastinating
5. Limit the dreaming, more on acting!
6. Brainstorm for more business prospects (I think I have entrepreneurship's genes :p)